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In Reply to: RE: At posted by morricab on December 16, 2013 at 01:30:30:
I believe this is 80kg - forget sound let's try and win the weight wars LOL.It's funny because I almost picked up a second hand pair of Reference 3a MM DeCapos here. Terrific second hand equipment store - they sell via consignment. You have to know what you want though because there is no real room to listen except to make sure it works kind of thing. A different building nearby is about 20 floors of audio retailers - one of which has picked up the entire Reference 3a Line.
Nothing there approached what I heard in an audiophile's home here (which had worse acoustics than the dealer) which was (yup the dreaded AN E-freestanding) with alnico tweeters and woofers running a Shindo Petrus preamp into AN Kegon amps and an Orpheus transport/DAC. I brought my recordings to the session. It's a Saturday ritual for the audiophiles in HK as they travel around the city visiting each other's homes for a few hours of listening then head to the record stores - it's actually kind of cool in the sense that the city is so small that you can find like minded people. AudioAsylum is great but it would be better to be able to head over to Jack's house one weekend to listen to the Teresonic's or over to Richard Mak's to hear his stuff - but at 3000kn apart we're stuck discussing the stuff on forums.
You have more disposable cash than me - you should be looking into their bigger Classic series. The weight requires them to have their own wheels - the 219IA should too IMO. I can lift a 120 lb woman no problem but dead weight on this amp I can't - I saw stars - time to go to the gym - eating too many jelly babies.You want the LM 212 monoblock amps. 204Kg EACH! The 219 is $7,500US. There are lower prices in HK but this is true of ALL Audio equipment no matter where it is made. Hong Kong has no duty, tariff, import taxes and ground shipping is practically free - with the low wages they pay drivers to get the stuff to HK versus what they pay drivers in the US/Canada - it all adds. Most business people open accounts here and have money in HKD. The guy to talk to is John Halpern of Tone Imports. It should also be pointed out that while the prices are lower here - stuff comes with a lower warranty - I believe my KEF has a 1 year warranty - it's probably 5 years in the western world. (I could be wrong but that is what the dealer told me - 1 year - but he's been wrong before :).
So the prices in the US versus EU versus Canada will likely all be different Typically, everything Chinese or not in HK is less - but make sure it's the real deal.
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